How Japan Became a Modern Nation: The Meiji Restoration and Sino-Japanese War
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Thank you to Oversimplified for letting us use their voice clip.
27 seconds after upload!
It’s a nature of time that the old ways must give in
It’s the nature of time that the new ways comes in sin
WHEN THE NEW MEET THE OLD, IT ALWAYS END THE ANCIENT WAYS
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Thinking how Japan basically skipped almost 300 years of technological advancements and gained it in a few decades and still maintain its title as the most technologically advanced Asian country even after beaten up badly during World War Two is wild
It's called devaluing Human lives.
Try to think of it... China is pulling the same move in the past decades.
This was only made possible by social developments during the Edo period. During that era Japan developed banking, joint-stock companies, high literacy and a mobile population that could move around without tolls. A magic combination for industrialization.
to be honest they are kind of being overtaken by south korea which has rapidly displacing in the technology field, they have more or less corned the computer chip market along with taiwan and they have overtaken japan in the car industry.
Japan is very technologically advanced but nevertheless i would say that these days the most advanced technologies can usually be found in Korea, Taiwan or some select parts of China.
Love the Shogun 2 total war intro lmfao
Imagine if it was animated. It would’ve been legendary
Brings back memories.
I was about to say that lol
Gun
Our men are running away from the battlefield!
It's 5 AM in Poland, and you just gave me another reason why not to sleep.
4:25 AM in Louisiana
And same
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1am in Argentina
It's 11: 16 AM in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 @@anti-spiral159
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1:03 Does anyone else get PTSD when Ezekiel uses the war declaration sound,uprising sound and stability losing sound from EU4?
yes
The war declaration sound always raises my blood pressure.
yes but in a good way
The irony is that those who wanted to overthrow Shogunate and remove foreign influence in Japan became prominent figures who were willing to embrace foreign systems when they won over shogunate.
Hate to be cynical but it just goes to show it’s rarely about principles and often only about power.
And then they lost their own powers and privilages to same central modernization they introduced, with the exception of traditional influence over army/navy respectively, the branch rivality that crippled them during world war 2 for exchange.
It's a very rational way of thinking. They needed to be modernized or westernized (since only the West was modern at the time) in order to prevent being taken over. The Shogun was too naive and wanted to keep things as it were, and just magically became like Britain. The issue is if they didn't evolved from feudalism, they would get flattened.
The issue in the West was assuming other parts of the world were as rational. especially in the Middle East, where they kill each other over being from the tribe 1km down the road.
24:40 fun fact:
French army advisors in Japan introduced high kicks into Karate from the French martial art of Savate
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Oh I’m sure this conflict will not cause anyone TO DIE
Yea no shit
Satsuma: “I can’t believe I’m going to die fighting alongside Choshu.”
Choshu: “How about fighting alongside a friend?”
Satsuma: “Hai. I can do that.”
Tears dripping from my eyes
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A month of waiting doesnt disapoint!
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many people say that china is the Germany of Asia but I disagree imo, Japan is the Germany of Asia because both countries were fractured and were united by a strong man leader type and then became the power houses of each region, and the funny thing is both countries defeated big countries like Russia and France respectively and both lost a great war but still mange to become global power in making cars
True
The Chinese are the Jews of Asia.
*Luang Wichitwathakan*
Japan is actually the ancient Nazi Germany of Asia if you look at the Imjin War.
@@markgarrett3647the koreans are the jews, the chinese are the slavs
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I still can't believe this guy is pumping such high quality content with such little time
No joke this guy deserves way more recognition
45:12 “the japanese army, without orders from tokyo…” good thing that wont become a trend later on….surely….
Bits of the armed forces find that they can't order other parts of the armed forces. There is no Joint Chiefs answering to a clear chain of command.
🌸 Genuinely an immensely interesting period of history that I feel needs more coverage in the west. Great video
Meiji restoration is really fascinating event
The Meiji Era and Japan's Modernization has always fascinated me. How a society that had virtually no advancement for two centuries and was essentially a forgotten backwater then turns into a Modern Great Power in the span of 50 years is truly incredible. If it has any lessons for us today it is that we should never underestimate what time and determination can do.
I'd also be interested to hear about the other cultural changes that happened in Japanese society at this time. I know a lot of what is considered modern Japanese cuisine originated in the Meiji Era, like for example Tonkatsu, which is basically just a schnitzel or dressed pork chop Japanized, since before the Meiji Restoration meat eating moved between being frowned upon and illegal in Japan.
Japan understood that ones culture is in how one does something. Not the substance.
Learning more about it breaks the idea that it was all sunshine and roses, it's fascinating to see all the hurdles that came with it, but that could be said in any golden era of any nation. What they did is still a magnificent feat nonetheless
@@madensmith7014 And you can still see it in the culture of each nation. Japan continually innovates, while trying to stay as closed as possible. And china is STILL catching up to japan, hundreds of years later.
Ironic thing is that Tonkatsu is based on French ‘côtelettes’ or ‘cutlets’ in English, so it isn’t directly related to Schnitzels at all
@@yuyoshida7359 yeah, I said dressed pork chops. Townsends has a few videos about 18th century dressed pork chops or cutlets that show those earlier recipes that inspired tonkatsu and other katsu dishes. But schnitzel is also a related recipe and is closest to modern tonkatsu, since their both fried.
Ain't no way you just animated the Shogun 2 intro, it's so good.
The Oversimplified Napoleon reference was superb.
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Napoleon: Bruhuhuhuhu 😭
I love how they were the irl equivalent of sped running your tech tree to catch up with other players’ civilizations. A prime example of Japan’s adaptability when necessary.
The amazing cameo from oversimplified
Thank the heavens Ezekiel has descended and released some more awesome content
I now finally know the full story behind the Sabaton song Shiroyama.
Yeah and how it has more in common with the movie "The Last Samurai" than actual history
Damnit I wanted to sleep but then Ezekiel had to go and upload
Is no one gonna talk about how the Japanese were literally using a former confederate states of America warship and they were fighting against the so-called Ezzo Republic style after the American style democracy so technically, if you think about it, the confederates got a final laugh in Japan when they destroyed the Japanese style America
The Total War Shogun 2 style intro was the perfect setup for the era of change where Japan went from an isolationist feudal society to a modern superpower. This is one of my favorite eras in Japanese history, so I'm glad you could finally cover this magnificent period of Japan's history.
A series in the Korean Empire would be awesome!!
sit still and try not die to the turmoils from china and japan for a thousand years lmfao
Yes! That does sound interesting!
Yes!
Korea's history is not that fascinating as it was basically a vassal state of China. I once visited a history museum in Germany, which had less than a tenth of the historical exhibits related to Korea, compared to Japan and China.
@@ALLKASDLLS-mg4luthis is absolutely false I did a study abroad in Korea and there is definitely a lot of interesting history. Such as Admiral Yi’s defense against Japanese shogunate invasion, the unification of the three kingdoms of Korea, the Korean resistance movement, and the defense of Busan during the Korean War, etc.
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I'm always looking forward to your videos 🌸🌸🌸
The sound and video effects in this video, especially at the start is amazing
the brief oversimplified cameo with the napoleon bit was great!!!
Wow, reanimating the Shogun 2 intro just for a 30 second Intro. The animation and effort that goes into these Videos is Insane.
saigo takamori's korea invasion plan was to literally kamikaz korea
as the plan included saigo takamori going to korea, taunting the king and getting executed to make a reason for invasion
absoulte chad.
I've just discovered this channel and it looks like it's a real hidden gem.
You and oversimplified makes my day thank u guys for telling history in a fun and interesting way
Napoleon-chan the 3-foot samurai 😂😂😂😂
He was more than that and was average height for the time!!
4:26 Oversimplified?!🤩 i love this channel🥹
Ezekiel's work gets better every day. 😊
IS THAT AN OVERSIMPLIFIED REFERENCE!!!! (4:27)
yes, clearly it is
This is great, I've been wanting to learn more about Japan before my trip this summer.
Also the Monty Python references are amazing. 🌸🌸🌸
I love that they put oversimplified reference
Best collab ever.
16:50 and that's how "Battotai" was made
40:20 and that's how "Yuki no shingun" was made
One thing I find interesting about Japan is how they interpret and implement foreign rules and how culture is crossed over.
Perfect upload timing
you're back i found you awhile back and thought it might be a dead channel thankfully not you have a great vid log.
The wait was well worth it. Hopefully the longer form videos please the TH-cam algorithm gods.
Huh! This is really interesting. Kinda reminds me of Mexico, going through upheavals that could have ended similarly had Maximilian won.
Im lovin these detailed animated documentaries! Its kind of giving me 'Extra History' vibes but with country balls.
Its very well done! Kudos to you
This is a masterpiece
CallmeEzekiel one of the best countryballs youtubers
Keep up the fantastic work. Your videos are so great
I hope to see a video on the Russo-Japanese, Great, and Inter-War period!
Every episode we get closer to WW2 in the region, and every episode I PRAY for an episode on Puyi, the last real emperor of China
In the next video: the Russo-Japanese War, the militarization of Japan, the invasion of Manchuria and the Second Sino-Japanese War
Sleeping nah, watching Ezekiel's new video? YES SIR
The visual jokes in this one was just *chef's kiss* 🤌
The Beiyang Fleet, to say the least, was quite astonishing for its time.
In the 1880s, almost all of Asia had no ironclad boats except Japan and China got the full brunt of that experience when they fought the French and got walloped hard. This the Qings to quickly purchase way more ironclad ships from Germany and Britain to supplement the loss that they suffered during the Sino-French War but a roadblock was in the way.
During Guangxu's short reign, he wanted to modernize the country in total like how Japan did but his advisor, Weng Tonghe, fervently opposed to the plan that modernizing the military was a no-go when the treasury was already at the brink of emptiness due to overspending thus he proposed the cut of fundings to the military which Guangxu, who also needed the funds for his own personal "Forbidden City "war"" with his family and officials, complied and promptly cut funding to the military and that was the catalyst for all that was to come.
When the Beiyang Fleet was formed in 1871, it was the weakest out of the 4 major Chinese fleets of the time which comprised of the Nanyang Fleet which was another modernized fleet, the Fujian Fleet and the Guangdong Fleet. In total, by the time of the Sino-French War, China had a combined fleet of over 150 ships in total but by the end of that conflict, the entire navy was cut down to just 80 ships which was horrific loss whereas it totally killed off the Fujian Fleet. However, China post-war still held a powerful navy on paper when it comes to tonnage and that's when the Beiyang Fleet comes into play. Prior to the conflict, the Beiyang was known as the weakest but that's because it was lacking in the number of ships that it had but the ships that it had was powerful.
Unlike the other naval fleets that China had which was mostly composited of wooden steamboats, the Beiyang Fleet was the first in the entire Chinese navy to have a iron warship and not just a boat that had iron clinging on it not only one was sent there, two were to be in the Beiyang Fleet and that's the Dingyuan and the Zhenyuan. Coupled with the losses that the other fleets suffered from the Sino-French War, the Beiyang Fleet effectively saw itself being trusted into the most powerful fleet that the Chinese had for that period and in total of the four fleets, it somehow became the 4th most powerful navy in the world, even beating Japan with the amount of tonnage they had on paper. However, everything was not rosy on the Chinese side despite the impressive numbers.
During the peace time before the Japanese swung with their bats, the Chinese government was in disarray. When Guangxu cut fundings to the military, Beiyang Fleet was hit rather harshly as they had planned to get two more battleships from Germany but that was cut by imperial decree. Not only was that an issue, due to the lack of direct funding, the fleet was left in a complete tatters as there's now no money to get more ammunition for training nor parts from overseas to repair said ships thus it gets worse and worse and worse. What exacerbated the issue even more was that now with lesser funding, the pay of officers also got cut thus many resorted to corruption and downright stealing.
They'll take supplies, parts and even sometimes weaponry from the Beiyang Fleet's HQ and ships and flip it out to black market dealers so they too can earn a quick buck but by doing so, they basically doomed themselves without knowing as the same time their pockets were filled, the supplies in the HQ was dwindling and not only so, the supplies were not coming in fast enough to fill the amount they took away from the base thus when the Japanese did fight the Chinese during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Fleet suddenly saw itself in trouble as now they not only had inadequate supplies, ammunition but also a lackluster crews as they couldn't train with no supplies and paychecks but still had to face the Japanese head-on as the other fleets were not that up to scratch either but at least the Chinese had two battleships when the Japanese had none.
Now the Japanese at this point had over 200 ships in total but they sent about 130 towards Weihaiwei region which was the penultimate battle between the Beiyang and basically the whole Chinese fleet against the Japanese and in that regard, the Chinese navy sent about 60 ships to the fight. In the crosshair was of course the pride of the Beiyang Fleet and the Chinese navy in general, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan but the Japanese at this point still didn't know that the Chinese fleet's condition was that bad as they initially thought that the Chinese would decimate them with their big guns with the battleships as all Japan had was numbers in ships but their ships were all small in size so even if the Japanese ship count in the fight against the Chinese ratio was a close 3:1, it'll still be a Chinese victory IF the Chinese did their homework and deployed well like Yi Sun-shin.
The Japanese found out that that was NOT the case as despite having all the strength, they discovered that the Chinese navy was in a confused state that not only their deployment strategy was wrong, they were not facing that many shots as they expected from the Chinese fleet thus the Japanese launched an all-out assault on the Chinese fleet and sent the Chinese fleet all down into the sea with speed and tenacity alone.
Didn't see the promo for this video. I just saw it scrolling. I know the subject and I know your channel. Liked before I watched.
Ezekiel never fails to deliver hit after hit
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"China wont have a blue water navy for a 100 years"
Out of all the L's china has taken so far that one hurt the most
What's the probability that next video will be an 1h documentary on the Russo-Japanese war?
Me WANT
Nice Shogun 2 intro, loved the reference.
Great video man. I would not be suprised that your channel will grow to be one of the largest historical channels of youtube!
The Shogun 2 opening is soooo good
I just started reading a book called 'Samurai Assassins Dark Murder and the Meiji Restoration' so this video couldn't have come at a better time
A real masterpiece!
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Miyasan Miyasan at the end was a nice touch
Awesome video like always... but i think its month number 5 I think? Whenever the Spanish civil war episode was of asking for Greek civil war videos😅😅😅
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America: I wouldn’t call it an empire, I’d call it a… sphere of influence
Awesome channel! Subscribed thanks for pointing at us viewers as supporters its the first and only one I've seen in such videos since YT existed
Nice one mate, another video with godly content
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"he gave the Japanese a box of white flags and informed them they would be of use if the Japanese chose war"
I fucking love being American
Loved that Oversimplified reference 😆
New video day is best day
Tokugawa-Ball popped out of a Yoshi egg LMFAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣
The video was amazing.
This video was amazing as always big man, fantastic work!!!
I am going to watch this tomorrow.
Not by a bell, but by the heart's calling
However, it is true that it was the bakufu that started the modernization of the country. Starting with the army, in 1840, Takashima Shuhan, a wealthy samurai from Nagasaki, presented the first Western-style army to the government in Edo, even before Commodore Matthew Perry arrival in 1854. Massive purchases of weapons from the West began in the 1850s. Moreover, in 1863 the formation of a sampeitai unit began, numbering 13,000 people, composed largely of peasant conscripts (yes, the shogunate began to recruit peasants into the army earlier than the emperor), in 1866 an order was placed for 30,000 Dreyse rifles and 40,000 Chassepot rifles . Together with the French military mission in 1867, the Bakufu troops received a supply of Arab horses and 12 pieces of artillery. A modern core for the future modernized army of Bakufu (Denshutai) was also created. Throughout the Boshin War, the Bakufu had a unit modeled on the Dutch army (Hoheigumi), numbering 12,000 soldiers, and in the Battle of Toba Fushimi, the imperial side did not use its only Gatling gun. The Shogunate navy was the 10th most powerful in the entire world and the strongest in Asia, which is why the Tokugawa navy won the Battle of Awa against the Imperial Navy during the Boshin War. The Bakufu also did not prohibit travel to the West - they sent students to deepen their knowledge of Western technology and society, not to mention the fact that for 200 years of isolation, the Japanese learned these things through the contacts with Dutch (Rangaku). Modern universities were created, e.g. the Naval School in Nagasaki, which raised future Imperial Japanese Navy Officers. The Bakufu also began the process of industrialization - mines ,foundries and textile industries were built. In 1866, modern naval arsenal was also built in Yokosuka with the help of the French, which was later taken over by the new government. In the shogunate camp there were plans to transform the old feudal model of the state into a federal republic modeled on the USA. Without the actions of the shogunate, Japan would not have been able to match the Western powers.
This was awesome! Would love to see a series of videos covering the Japanese Empire. Maybe even going back and covering the Gempei war and Sengoku period?
The Shogun 2 opening and music lets gooooooo!!!!
Aaaa Shogun vibe !!! I love you dude
I love the total war three kingdoms music
Oh man the Shogun intro took me back XD
Ok that's it I'm subbing
4:26 oversimplified
HA!!
Underrated video
So many references to total war and paradox strategy